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Ahh, no, those aren't my categories at all, simply the ones most often used in coversations like these. One can't go dropping in new...

Things that are separated can still be separated internally, too.

Thanks! RPG theory is a part of our hobby I get a lot of enjoyment out of. Since I also design and sell RPG stuff I get to actually try...

I don't see any reason why authorial control mechanics couldn't be a kind of mechanic to discuss. I don't think they define narrativist...

I don't think moving some authority to the players makes a game intrinsically narrative in focus. It may have been somewhat uncommon in...

All I am pointing out is that if you use 4d6dl as written the results can lead to significant imbalance on a regular basis. It's not...

Good heavens no, they certainly do not. As for 'objective', I think that's more a word to apply in individual cases where it might be...

Well, my point was that what they have in common is the conversation, shared diegetic space, and to add an item, avatars through which...

The problem is, this excludeds chocolate-and-peanut-butter people like myself. I'm very much a pretty a trad player and GM, but at the...

That really isn't enough to imply anything beyond a vague similarity, which isn't enough for our purposes. They are also both very...

Tbf, most casual use has it as a shorthand of games whose core mechanical conceits and framework of principles hew relatively close to...

Yeah. To your point, I think just broadly tarring PbtA games and Storypath (the system used in all the recent Onyx Path games) as...

I don't think it takes anything like that long. The real measure of 'work' is probably the GM - how experienced they are with RPGs...

Players and their characters coasting to a halt hasn't been an uncommon event for me; I ran into it bigtime with an Alternity campaign I...

Last year, I started a D&D 2024 campaign to give the rules a "fair shake" and I decided to base the campaign on a great map (Dyson...